#lit

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. ↗

— Hippocrates

#amount #could #every #exercise #found

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#every #free #free people #fruitful #good

I used to know a carnival man turned preacher who said the key to his success was understanding the people of what he called Snake's Navel, Arkansas. He said in Snake's Navel, the biggest thing going on Saturday night was the Dairy Queen. He said you could get the people there to do damn near anything --pollute their own water, work at five-dollar-an-hour jobs, drive fifty miles to a health clinic-- as long as you packaged it right. That meant you gave them a light show and faith healings and blow-down-the-walls gospel music with a whole row of American flags across the stage. He said what they liked best, though --what really got them to pissing all over themselves-- was to be told it was other people going to hell and not them. He said people in Snake's Navel wasn't real fond of homosexuals and Arabs and Hollywood Jews, although he didn't use them kinds of terms in his sermons. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#faith

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style. ↗

— Al Hirt

#bit #had #i #little #little bit

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#accuracy #any #argument #boasting #case

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #dialectic #give #giving #i

With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore. ↗

— Barbara Brown Taylor

#humility #inspirational #faith

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities. ↗

— Dee Hock

#experience #good #other #people #provide

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world. ↗

— Pete Hoekstra

#different #different perspective #having #intelligence #military

Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state. ↗

— John Hoeven

#build #critical #each #economic #education